The molecular mechanisms of congenital infection with betaherpesvirus - the human cytomegalovirus - focusing on the issue of latency establishment

Speaker:  Magdalena Weidner-Glunde, Ph.D. DSc, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn

Talk:  The molecular mechanisms of congenital infection with betaherpesvirus - the human cytomegalovirus - focusing on the issue of latency establishment

Time:  14.04.2023, 9:00 am

Venue:  Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58, hall 042B

Dr. Magdalena Weidner-Glunde graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors and summa cum laude in Biology with a major in Cell Biology and Physiology and a second individual major: Chemistry/Mathematics/Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the USA. In 2000, she was accepted into the Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA where in 2005 she defended her dissertation, done under the supervision of Prof. Diane Hayward, on the molecular mechanisms of persistence of gammaherpesvirus - Kaposi's sarcoma virus. Both as part of her PhD and later, while working as a post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. Thomas Schulz at the Institute of Virology at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover in Germany, she explored the molecular mechanisms of oncogenic gammaherpesvirus persistence. In 2018, after returning to Poland, Dr. Weidner-Glunde established her own research group and the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Virology at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn. Dr. Weidner-Glunde's team currently studies the molecular mechanisms of congenital infection with betaherpesvirus - the human cytomegalovirus - focusing on the issue of latency establishment.